Woman's Wrapper (Aso Oke)

Textiles

Mid–20th century

Yoruba
Nigeria

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Yoruba
Title: Woman's Wrapper (Aso Oke)
Place: Nigeria (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1925–1975
Medium: 15 strips joined: cotton and viscose-rayon, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and areas of discontinuous wefts forming openwork
Dimensions: 207.3 × 156.5 cm (81 1/2 × 61 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Irving Dobkin Endowment
Reference Number: 2009.1034

Private collection, Highland Park, IL, by Dec. 15, 2009 [acquisition documentation in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2009.

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